Two ASCII messages containing English letters and spaces only are encrypted using the one-time pad and the same key. The 10th byte of the first ciphertext is observed to be 0xB7 and the 10th byte of the second ciphertext is observed to be 0xE7. Let m1 (resp., m2) denote the 10th ASCII character in the first (resp., second) message. What is the most you can conclude about m1 and m2?

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m1 is the space character and m2 is the character 'p'.

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One of m1 or m2 is the space character, and the other is the character 'p'.

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Nothing can be determined about m1 or m2 since the one-time pad is perfectly secret.

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m1 is the character 'B' and m2 is the character 'E'.

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m1 is the character 'p' and m2 is the space character.

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